Alan Turing 'would be persecuted today for being clever'

22-06-12

HOMOSEXUAL maths genius Alan Turing would be persecuted for being intelligent if he were alive today, it has been claimed.

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Turing was instrumental in cracking the Nazis’ enigma code, but was hounded over his sexuality and finally took his own life in 1954. As preparations begin to mark the centenary of his birth, it has been claimed that he would still be ostracised today, for preferring maths books to The Only Way Is Essex.

Professor Henry Brubaker of the Institute for Studies said: “Britain has become a much more tolerant place for homosexuals. Louis Spence could ride a pink pony around Bletchley Park wearing a suit made of plastic penises and no-one would bat an eyelid, in fact they would actively try to ignore him.

“So Turing would be mostly fine on the gay front. But we have to remember he was also a brainiac. That is today a much more serious crime.”